Fujitsu and Green IT amongst other things

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Computer company Fujitsu Siemens is going to start slapping a big, fat ‘green’ label on all its products that are more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

Fujitsu Siemens says the ‘Green IT’ label (pictured) will help flag up the green credentials of its computer products for customers.

The new green IT label appears on products manufactured from November 2008 and uses a three-tier system – ranging from one star through to the highest, three-star accolade.

Fujitsu says the three-star label recognises products that exceed current green IT legislation around material, recycling and power consumption.

The more we talk about Green IT, in terms of not only the hardware, the software configuration, the application and the process the better. It’s great to see Fujitsu and the other vendors talking about Green IT, what they can do to improve the energy efficiency of their products and services; we need the end user to do the same.

Remember that it’s all four that contribute to the efficiency of the way you do business, the amount of energy consumed per transaction. An application not optimized for the platform might mean you buying a faster higher powered server, increasing your power and cooling requirements, that it’s running on a legacy operating system is increasing your support and development costs etc.

For example taking that process online might reduce paper work, and the amount of paper printed, toners consumed, the number of printers required. Streamline your processes, your business to streamline the IT.